Thursday, January 21, 2010
AP – Explaining the Supreme Court on campaign finance
AP – Common Cause Public Campaign President Nick Nyhard, right, accompanied by Common Cause President Bob …
By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer – Thu Jan 21, 2:25 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Big business and free speech won. Campaign finance reform lost. Political parties and many candidates, too. And for voters, there's both an upside and a downside.
The Supreme Court's monumental decision upending decades of campaign finance law has a slew of winners and losers.
It frees corporations, and by extension unions, to spend as much as they want to call for the victory or defeat of federal political candidates — by name — in commercials and literature. As long as there's no coordination with the candidates or campaigns.
... the doors wide open to the US corporatism absolute power ...
... starting tomorrow all congressmen and senators ...
... are going to wear the uniform of their sponsors ...
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